“The Department of Health and Human Services released its Artificial Intelligence Strategy Monday after promoting Senior Advisor to the CIO Oki Mek as its chief AI officer.”
“HHS started developing the seven-page document in 2019 to focus on encouraging fluent, accelerated and scalable AI adoption across the agency, as well as establishing an AI Council to help oversee the agency’s overall AI growth and development.”
“’Together with its partners in academia, industry and government, HHS will leverage AI to solve previously unsolvable problems by continuing to lead advances in the health and wellbeing of the American people, responding to the use of AI across the health and human services ecosystem, and scaling trustworthy AI adoption across the department,’ Mek said.”
“To realize its “AI ambition,” HHS aims to lead in AI innovation across federal government by prioritizing AI application and development. The agency strives to do this by regulating and overseeing use of AI in the health industry and by providing grants to research that leverages AI-based solutions to deliver outcomes that support the agency’s mission.”
“‘As a steward of federal funds, HHS will encourage grant recipients to consider AI’s utility and prioritize and enable programs, grants and research that use AI in trustworthy ways in order to more efficiently or effectively realize mission impact,’ the strategy said. ‘These efforts include, but are not limited to, advancing biomedicine through AI-enabled insights into large datasets, predictive analytics in public health surveillance and responses, and advancing the use of cognitive technologies to identify new approaches to health and behavioral conditions with complex multifactorial causality…'” Read the full article here.
Source: HHS Establishes ‘AI Ambition’ in New Strategy – By Melissa Harris, January 28, 2021. GovernmentCIO.
